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IAST Award--This year is the first time Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken has won the coveted It's About Stinking Time Award for finally pulling the plug on his streak at 2,632 games. His steadily declining level of play recently (.271 with 14 homers and 61 RBIs) means he is only an average third baseman...
...irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office building unless he climbs to the roof.) Bowing to technological reality, Iridium decided that its phones should piggyback on terrestrial cell-phone networks. Then the question became--which ones? An Iridium phone needs different plug-in modules to speak the language of different cellular standards, like NADC in the U.S. and GSM in most of the rest of the world. You get your choice of one when you buy the phone, but additional modules cost $500 each...
...need to discuss this now? Because the gadgets you place under this year's Christmas tree will be the ones you plug into Jini networks (or someone's networks; Microsoft, big surprise, is apparently developing a competing platform) come the millennium. If those gadgets aren't functional in a "distributed" world, you'll have to shell out again for ones that...
...really worth paying that much for a machine that will plug into the digital future? Maybe so, if it also passes Question Two: Can it be networked--can it communicate with the Web and smaller networks? A number of digital cameras already come with input/output ports like FireWire, which links with your PC and printer for easy editing, storage and printmaking. Ditto for cell phones: Nokia and Ericsson already sell digital models with networking capabilities, and others will soon follow...
...against him. The chairman of the board, William Gibson, had been accused by other board members of running up his N.A.A.C.P. expense account by thousands of dollars. Membership was dropping. There was a deficit of nearly $4 million. The only message was chaos. Better, I argued, to pull the plug on the N-Double-A and replace it with a new organization...